Justify

While it’s easy to use headcanon to justify the police mistaking Rocket’s home planet, it’s impossible to justify the Lylla Easter egg.

She added: “It’s like you’re being re-tried because everything you say you would like they say ‘well justify that and justify that’ and it just goes on and on.

This summer, several tenants told the board the city's affordability crisis and rising cost of living should justify a rent increase freeze — but landlords cited the same reasons to justify higher rents.

The arguments that Cannavalle uses to justify his way of writing the story brought a smile to my face as I recognized expressions I used to use to justify copy I had written for lawyers and copy chiefs in the past.

A theodicy of good fortune seeks to justify the good fortune of people in society; Weber believed that those who are successful are not satisfied unless they can justify why they deserve to be successful.

In Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf, he argues that the American involvement in the Gulf war was obscured or "spun" by the metaphors which were used by the first Bush administration to justify it.

After a starting point has been established the judge must then consider whether there are any additional 'aggravating factors' which would justify an increase from it.

A group of Republican senators at the end of last week introduced a bill to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed in the wake of the September 11th attacks and is still being used to justify wars today.

Although the company's third quarter 2023 year-over-year growth rate of 30% could justify its current valuation, MongoDB has yet to achieve GAAP profitability, and only this year did it record its first quarter of positive FCF.

An alarming number of people put too much stake in the fortune-telling from strangers to either entrust everything to fate, or to justify their deepest desires.

Analysts are divided on whether the May 3 drone incident at the Kremlin was a genuine attack or a “false flag” concocted to justify increasing the ferocity of Russia’s missile barrages in Ukraine.

And it can be hard to justify spending several hundred dollars on a watch, especially when you're on a tight budget.

And nearly six years after learning about the subcontractors, it had become Marquez’s job to justify the arrangement to ComEd’s new CEO.

And next Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to visit South Africa at the start of a planned second African tour since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 - an act that Moscow evidently needs to justify across the continent.

Andrew Gallagher, Marketing Director at Greene King Local Pubs said: “Our research shows that the average family meal out now costs around £90 – which given the current climate it is unsurprising that families are struggling to justify.

And then imagine that a question was put to you: What would the chances have to be that a lab accident was the origin of the pandemic to justify a broad and public conversation about the safety of that research?

And the railroads say they don’t need to justify their cost-cutting.

And there it is again, the victim narrative that is used to justify even the most horrific terror attacks.

A new reading of the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge could make it easier for the central bank to justify a dovish shift in 2024, setting the stage for rate cuts in the new year.

An expert interviewed by police determined the incident did not meet the threshold of exceptional circumstances that justify deploying a Taser against an elderly or disabled person.